Alon Shepon

3.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
30 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Alon Shepon is a scholar working on Ecology, Food Science and Environmental Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Alon Shepon has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Ecology, 9 papers in Food Science and 6 papers in Environmental Engineering. Recurrent topics in Alon Shepon's work include Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (17 papers), Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (9 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers). Alon Shepon is often cited by papers focused on Agriculture Sustainability and Environmental Impact (17 papers), Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (9 papers) and Environmental Impact and Sustainability (5 papers). Alon Shepon collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Sweden. Alon Shepon's co-authors include Gidon Eshel, Ron Milo, Tamar Makov, Εlad Noor, Christopher D. Golden, Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Jessica A. Gephart, Max Troell, Richard Newton and Peter Tyedmers and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Alon Shepon

29 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Environmental performance of blue foods

2021 407 citations Jessica A. Gephart, Patrik J. G. Henriksson et al. Nature profile →
Global estimation of dietary micronutrient inadequacies: a modelling analysis

2024 87 citations Simone Passarelli, Christopher M. Free et al. The Lancet Global Health profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alon Shepon Israel	17	745	396	285	193	187	30	1.7k
Timothy B. Sulser United States	24	955 1.3×	387 1.0×	245 0.9×	363 1.9×	193 1.0×	58	2.8k
H.H.E. van Zanten Netherlands	27	1.6k 2.1×	757 1.9×	203 0.7×	163 0.8×	347 1.9×	70	3.2k
Richard S. Cottrell Australia	24	567 0.8×	257 0.6×	642 2.3×	57 0.3×	103 0.6×	38	1.9k
Anna K. Farmery Australia	21	439 0.6×	208 0.5×	434 1.5×	68 0.4×	55 0.3×	42	1.2k
Malin Jonell Sweden	14	462 0.6×	233 0.6×	451 1.6×	55 0.3×	46 0.2×	24	1.3k
Friederike Ziegler Sweden	14	460 0.6×	233 0.6×	401 1.4×	51 0.3×	92 0.5×	28	1.1k
Hanna L. Tuomisto Finland	26	1.6k 2.1×	838 2.1×	173 0.6×	175 0.9×	358 1.9×	76	3.2k
Henk Westhoek Netherlands	25	1.8k 2.4×	638 1.6×	473 1.7×	251 1.3×	593 3.2×	45	3.6k
Adrian Müller Switzerland	29	1.4k 1.9×	498 1.3×	308 1.1×	131 0.7×	324 1.7×	89	3.8k
C. Opio Italy	11	1.6k 2.2×	475 1.2×	148 0.5×	147 0.8×	484 2.6×	17	2.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Alon Shepon

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alon Shepon

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alon Shepon

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alon Shepon. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alon Shepon based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alon Shepon. Alon Shepon is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Eshel, Gidon, Avi I. Flamholz, Alon Shepon, & Ron Milo. (2025). US grass-fed beef is as carbon intensive as industrial beef and ≈10-fold more intensive than common protein-dense alternatives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 122(12). e2404329122–e2404329122. 2 indexed citations

Passarelli, Simone, Christopher M. Free, Alon Shepon, et al.. (2024). Global estimation of dietary micronutrient inadequacies: a modelling analysis. The Lancet Global Health. 12(10). e1590–e1599. 87 indexed citations breakdown →

Shepon, Alon, Zhongxiao Sun, Tamar Makov, & Paul Behrens. (2024). The environmental and social opportunities of reducing sugar intake. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(48). e2314482121–e2314482121. 1 indexed citations

Viana, Daniel, David Gill, Alex Zvoleff, et al.. (2024). Sustainable-use marine protected areas to improve human nutrition. Nature Communications. 15(1). 7716–7716. 4 indexed citations

Shepon, Alon, Tong Wu, Claire Kremen, et al.. (2023). Exploring scenarios for the food system–zoonotic risk interface. The Lancet Planetary Health. 7(4). e329–e335. 12 indexed citations

Makov, Tamar, et al.. (2022). Digital food sharing and food insecurity in the COVID-19 era. Resources Conservation and Recycling. 189. 106735–106735. 29 indexed citations

Gephart, Jessica A., Patrik J. G. Henriksson, Robert Parker, et al.. (2021). Environmental performance of blue foods. Nature. 597(7876). 360–365. 407 indexed citations breakdown →

Tepper, Sigal, Diklah Geva, Danit R. Shahar, et al.. (2021). The SHED Index: a tool for assessing a Sustainable HEalthy Diet. European Journal of Nutrition. 60(7). 3897–3909. 44 indexed citations

Shepon, Alon, Jessica A. Gephart, Christopher D. Golden, et al.. (2021). Exploring sustainable aquaculture development using a nutrition-sensitive approach. Global Environmental Change. 69. 102285–102285. 16 indexed citations

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Makov, Tamar, et al.. (2020). Social and environmental analysis of food waste abatement via the peer-to-peer sharing economy. Nature Communications. 11(1). 1156–1156. 95 indexed citations

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Shepon, Alon, Jessica A. Gephart, Patrik J. G. Henriksson, et al.. (2020). Reorientation of aquaculture production systems can reduce environmental impacts and improve nutrition security in Bangladesh. Nature Food. 1(10). 640–647. 23 indexed citations

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Eshel, Gidon, et al.. (2019). Environmentally Optimal, Nutritionally Sound, Protein and Energy Conserving Plant Based Alternatives to U.S. Meat. Scientific Reports. 9(1). 10345–10345. 60 indexed citations

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Shepon, Alon, et al.. (2018). The opportunity cost of animal based diets exceeds all food losses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 115(15). 3804–3809. 124 indexed citations

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Hamann, Maike, Kevin Berry, Tomas Chaigneau, et al.. (2018). Inequality and the Biosphere. Annual Review of Environment and Resources. 43(1). 61–83. 81 indexed citations

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Shepon, Alon, Patrik J. G. Henriksson, & Tong Wu. (2018). Conceptualizing a Sustainable Food System in an Automated World: Toward a “Eudaimonian” Future. Frontiers in Nutrition. 5. 104–104. 14 indexed citations

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Eshel, Gidon, et al.. (2017). A model for ‘sustainable’ US beef production. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 2(1). 81–85. 27 indexed citations

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Eshel, Gidon, Alon Shepon, Εlad Noor, & Ron Milo. (2016). Environmentally Optimal, Nutritionally Aware Beef Replacement Plant-Based Diets. Environmental Science & Technology. 50(15). 8164–8168. 29 indexed citations

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Shepon, Alon, Gidon Eshel, Εlad Noor, & Ron Milo. (2016). Energy and protein feed-to-food conversion efficiencies in the US and potential food security gains from dietary changes. Environmental Research Letters. 11(10). 105002–105002. 109 indexed citations

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Eshel, Gidon, Alon Shepon, Tamar Makov, & Ron Milo. (2014). Land, irrigation water, greenhouse gas, and reactive nitrogen burdens of meat, eggs, and dairy production in the United States. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(33). 11996–12001. 334 indexed citations

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Shepon, Alon & Hezi Gildor. (2006). The Lightning-Biota Climatic Feedback. AGUFM. 2006. 1 indexed citations

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